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Doubleday, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy of the first American edition in original gilt-stamped red cloth (slight wear; bookplate). No jacket. Gravure Plates, Color Illus.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. Very Good/Very Good. Gravure Plates, Color Illus.. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. In color pictorial jacket over red cloth with publisher's slipcase., 8vo, 400pp. Illustrated.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1960. Hardcover. Good/very good +. First English language edition. Cloth in dust jacket in slipcase, illustrated, good copy in very good+ dust jacket in very good slipcase, erasable pencil to some pages, previous owner's signature in marker on the front pastedown and blindstamp on the titlepage, light edgewear to the dust jacket, discoloration and wear to the slipcase.

Hardcover. Uniform Title: Métamorphose Des Dieux. English. Fine.

New York: Doubleday, 1960. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. B/W Plates. 400 Pp. First Edition In The English Language (Stated). A Fine Example, No Wear Or Marks, In Near Fine Dj Priced $20.00 With Trace Of Wear Along Top And Bottom Edges, Crease On Rear Flap.

NY: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First American Edition; in VG slipcase; lite sunning of edges; 400 clean, unmarked pages . A metaphysical inquiry into art as a series of transmutations of man's varying reaction to "his portion of eternity". Illustrated by color, b&w photos & illusts. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8 Vo; 3.5 Pounds.

London: Secker And Warburg, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. B/W Plates. 400 Pp. First Edition In The English Language (Stated). A Fine Example, No Wear Or Marks, In Near Fine Dj With Trace Of Wear Along Top And Bottom Edges.

New York: Doubleday, 1960. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. B/W Plates. 400 Pp. First Edition In The English Language (Stated). A Fine Example, No Wear Or Marks, In Fine Dj Priced $20.00. In The Slipcase Which Shows Slight Rubbing And Fading.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First US Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full maroon cloth with embossed gilt lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs. In slipcase. Through the civilizations of Greece and Byzantium and Europe Malraux traces successive changes not only in the meaning of art but in its uses. One loses a sense of one period growing out of another and substitutes instead an awareness of forces that produced change beyond the definable worldly factors. Malraux reaches back into pre- history, to ancient empires Minean and Mycenacean and Egyptian and Hittite; and forward to the classic eres as the Sophists undermined the prestige of the gods and the tyranny of reality lept Rome from true art. With the Byzantium overlordship came the linking and kinship between Christian and Oriental forms. A religious ferment was at work. Mosaics- not painting- took the place of the antique… Read More